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Three have applied for vacant LISD trustee job

Chris Comer didn’t draw an opponent in 2010 when he ran for re-election of his Lubbock Independent School District trustee seat, but three people have applied for the seat since he vacated it Dec. 16.

Comer resigned the District 3 seat to take a banking job in Midland.

LISD school board president James Arnold said he hoped to receive letters from other applicants by the deadline at the end of the week. He declined to identify those who had submitted their names.

Letters of interest should be postmarked by midnight Friday and should include a resume, said Nancy Sharp, LISD director of communication and community relations.

They should be mailed to James Arnold, president, LISD Board of Trustees, c/o Lubbock National Bank, P.O. Box 6100, Lubbock, TX 79493, she said.

“The way our timeline is set up right now, we will review applications at our next school board meeting on Jan. 12 with a good chance of making a decision by Jan. 26th,” Arnold said.

The meeting on Jan. 12 will be a board workshop, and the Jan. 26 meeting will be the regular monthly meeting of the school board, he said.

If the board doesn’t reach a consensus on Jan. 12, it is possible it could ask finalists come in later for interviews, Arnold said. He also said the board reserves the right to choose not to appoint anyone and leave the position open until a special election in May.

If an appointment is made, the new trustee would run for the unexpired two years of Comer’s term in May.

Arnold said the vote for the appointment would be made like any other school board vote except only six trustees would be voting.